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Maharashtra Departmental Examinations Exam Pattern

A standard, a count of chances, and a consequence.

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Maharashtra Departmental Examinations · checked 19 September 2026

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Maharashtra Departmental Examinations: the facts that matter now

01
Each department, from 2021; MPSC only for limited departmental competitive examinations
Who conducts
02
General administration department resolution of 31 March 2021 — post-entry and promotion examinations for state government servants
Policy
03
Three from joining; 50 per cent in every subject; departments fix papers, marks, duration and with-books rules
Chances and pass mark
04
Increment withheld until pass; discharge for gazetted direct recruits and Group C probationers who fail within probation
Consequences

Pattern

Maharashtra Departmental Examinations — How the paper is structured

The rules across the departments.
Rule	Detail
Three chances	From joining; unsat examinations count.
Fifty per cent	In every subject.
Increment	Withheld until a pass after three failures; restored without arrears.
Probation	Pass within it, or discharge for gazetted direct recruits and Group C probationers.
Exemption	Fifty years of age; fifteen years in the post for promotion examinations.
Papers	As the department’s rules set — with or without books.

Confirm the structure against your own notification

MPSC and the state’s other recruiting bodies revise schemes, ratios and dates between cycles, and the advertisement for your cycle is the document that binds. The figures here are from the latest documents on the official sites at the date checked and are labelled where they come from an older cycle.

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